My coaching uses supportive personalized methods to help you reach your potential and actualize your hopes and dreams. We work together to understand your unique challenges and strengths, then we collaborate to overcome obstacles and achieve personal and academic growth.
We typically begin by assessing your needs and goals.
Moving away from the cycle of discouragement will have a transformative effect on your motivation and productivity. It allows you to focus on developing effective habits and strategies that support your academic and personal growth. Instead, we create a positive cycle of progress and achievement which starts with breaking through barriers to your success.
I use a variety of assessments to help us figure out your barriers/stumbling blocks. Regular weekly meet-ups root out of the issues that get in your way—distraction, procrastination, organization and motivation.
We close the gaps in your performance and unlock your potential.
Happiness is our end goal!
I found a mentor who wasn’t shy to test and challenged my thinking, ushering forth the real meaning behind my never ending manufacturing of ideas. It can be easy to get lost in my mind palace! You have the patience and roadmap figured out.
How we respond to challenges and situations will profoundly impact our well-being and growth. It's natural to experience reactions like frustration, anxiety, or isolation-but its not pleasant! Learning new ways to navigate through emotions and understanding their root causes can lead to greater resilience and personal development. Unraveling these complexities in our lives often requires developing grit and strength, which ultimately help us face future challenges with more confidence and clarity.
Working 1:1 is transformative when it guides you towards specific outcomes that improve your life. The process involves mediating towards goals that are important and relevant to you. Individuals can then unlock their potential and enhance their natural talents and abilities - their brilliance. Ultimately you accomplish your goals and discover your essential self. We collaborate and tailor our approach to meet your unique needs.
You have huge potential, no matter what your label!
I take you and the challenges you face seriously. I'm old school. I am your dedicated ally. I’ve been around the block a few (hundred) times with students and adults. I am practical and persistent! I won’t give up on you.
Modern life has its unique executive function demands, and not everyone can cope with them effectively. Despite the countless apps designed to hack our thinking and habits, it's easy to flounder and be ineffective. That stings!
I support my clients in many ways, from affirmations to qualified critiques to outright praise. A pragmatic approach helps you accomplish everything you want, now and in the future. I’m there for you.
We collaborate in a hands-on, nuts-and-bolts approach to understand the curriculum and the intentions of your instructors.
Every academic task, from writing essays to managing the tsunami of assignments, requires time management and an awareness of effort. We address weak areas of executive functioning in a pragmatic, experienced, and informed way.
Our goal is to put you in charge, remove avoidance and reward output.
We build on your past academic experiences to focus on content and career to better understand needed changes.
We implement a pragmatic, structured method to minimize stress and maximize your clarity about assignments, rubrics, effort and time. Equally important is a sense of confidence and self-worth as a student.
Success in college is a state where you consciously transition into an adult.
Coaching is a nuanced relationship—part life skills, part therapy, part change agent. Making that change is about clarifying your vision, following through on your efforts, and trusting oneself.
Neuro-diverse people are unique, intelligent, clever, and cool. We are the proverbial square pegs, always making extraordinary efforts. We need workarounds to find satisfaction.
Understanding our experiences leads to new solutions.
He helped me realize that learning is a fluid process, and study skills are transferrable across subjects. He took the time to understand my learning style.
Terry taught me a great deal about who I am and how to learn on my own. I really enjoyed working with him.
“When I was unsuccessful getting into medical school, he sent out e-mails and text messages regularly to cheer me up and encourage me to move forward with life”.
Like the tax man, {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMdcE8jdz70&ab_channel=TheBeatlesVEVO) I track your progress and communicate with text/email or phone check-in on a weekly basis. For high school students, this is generally a curriculum/assignment review, an editorial collaboration or a reminder about deliverables. I shadow your Canvas/Schoology portal to understand the nature of your assignments. I provide you with handouts that clarify the connection between learning theory and skill building. I can be warm and fuzzy, cute and cajoling, or direct.
We recalibrate your how-NOT to-get it done patterns, so you can take satisfaction from your efforts and move forward.
Deep collaboration creates significant changes in your academic or professional life.
It’s all a question of perspective. Our learning neuro-divergent issues which are related to the demands of curriculum and your habits. They change when we understand our thoughts, skills and talents--and when we're willing to work around our current disposition. When we cannot be systematic, lack confidence or have weak skills, we get confused, we get angry! We get a label! Potay-toe/tomah-toe, divergent/typical.
Labels work to put a name on a constellation of behaviors, but they're not the whole territory of you. They're just sampling of your current geography.
Coaching facilitates your adaptation, to help you replace inefficient and imprecise perspectives about learning with best practices. The outcome is positivity and progress.
Everyone has a unique mindset and the key is to unlock our conceptions about ourselves, to be flexible. We learn how to coordinate our impressive skills and talents and implement pragmatic executive actions. The challenge is to understand time, effort and motivation to improve outcomes. When we do, we evolve.
Coaching can help you gain you a clear vision of yourself! We enhance what is already there - your brilliance.
Understanding how to clarify your vision, to persist, and to optimize your time will lead you to trust yourself. You say neuro-divergent, I say neuro-brilliant!
To begin, you sign up for a free, 20 minute phone consultation right here. This is for parents or adults only. If there’s a good fit, we move on to the next step!
The second meeting is not a clinical interview; more of a coffee chat, sans coffee. We chat about whatever strikes our fancy to establish a connection. The goal is to connect and to explain the process with an eye on understanding your exact needs. This meeting works better in person, but we can zoom, if you are not in San Francisco.
If there is a connection. Then there are forms to complete. One for parents outlining business practices and charges, and another for you to indicate your concerns and issues.
Then, we map out a basic framework focusing on YOU. I provide structured and timely feedback to clients, handouts and follow up. Weekly, bi-weekly and Zoom sessions are available.
PATAGUCCI
Kites carry whimsical hopes and dreams. Magic lamps grant wishes to those who ask. Lanterns guide your journey.
ILLUMINATI
Mystical brotherhoods with books of knowledge and secret rituals elevate the ordinary perspectives, ideas and concepts of life.
GRIFFIN
Surrounded by a vine of mystical flowers and dreams and guarded by a magical Griffin. Our aspirations of goodness and justice are held by little birds who navigate the turbulent clouds of life.
CORAZÓN
Our hearts are surrounded by the passions of life carried by the outstretched and powerful wings of flight or surrounded by a thorn-less rose.
